The unarmed missile was test launched by the U.S. Space Force less than a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down after it floated over a sensitive nuclear site in Montana.
The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile late Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in southern California. The test reentry vehicle flew about 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the Air Force said Friday.
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The United States fired an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean as an implicit signal of nuclear readiness to North Korea and China.